This dynamic short story from Hunt, whose debut novel,The Seas, won theNational Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 prize, follows a group of mothers as they discuss a woman who mysteriously disappeared during their children’s soccer game. The dialogue-driven story has a fast-paced feel that’ll...
InA Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes’sFlaubert’s Parrot, Felicite, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to such a modest existence. Flaubert’s “great saint...
I had quarrelled with some of my friends about it; I had parted company with them for maintaining that one HAD to be, and that if the type was beautiful–witness Raphael and Leonardo–the servitude was only a gain. I was neither Leonardo nor Raphael–I might only be a presumptuous ...
Ala kachuu: Directed by Maria Brendle. With Alina Turdumamatova, Nurbek Esengazy Uulu, Madina Talipbek, Taalaikan Abazova. A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.
Sometimes, the husbands of the washing women would fetch and deliver the clothes for their wives, but Jesus, Nancy's husband, would never stoop to this servitude for her. The emphasis on washing both in the first and last sections unifies the story. The opening paragraphs describe ...
A Christmas Eve Walk: Kittens! A sweet story about a young ghost that leads a woman to abandoned kittens and ultimately to love. I read this book in one sitting, and it lifted my spirits with a reminder that there is kindness in the world if we choose to be kind. Highly recommended ...
Profit Motive and the Endless Sea: Directed by Bruno Atkinson. While countrymen look up to the skies for rain, a young inventor imagines a future free from servitude to the land.
The life that had been enslaved by despair and servitude gazed upon her with great awe and gratitude, their glimmering eyes reflecting hope being reborn. Anya, her swollen body weary but her heart full of love, lowered her hand, releasing her symphony to stretch itself widely through the ...
This story is about Del learning to live with the reality of death, and how her personhood has been shaped first by her ancestry, then culturally by extended relatives. WHAT HAPPENS IN “HEIRS OF THE LIVING BODY” GRUMPY UNCLE CRAIG
Cinderella: Directed by George Nichols. With Florence La Badie, Harry Benham, Anna Rosemond, Frank Hall Crane. A young woman forced into servitude by her family gets more than she bargained for when her fairy godmother magically permits her to go to the